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Affiliate Positions

  • Affiliate, West African Digital Mental Health Alliance (WADMA)
  • Affiliate, Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Washington, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE)

Specializations

  • Visualization Studies and Critical Visual Design Research
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Research Areas

Courses

Biography

Dr. Jaime Snyder is an Associate Professor in the Information School. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Human Center Design and Engineering (HCDE) and an affiliate of the Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BriTe) Center and the West African Digital Mental Health Alliance (WADMA). Dr. Snyder’s research focuses on human-centered digital visualization design practices; vernacular and non-expert data practices; visual and data literacies; ethics and values in the design of visualizations; and visual research methods. Informed by prior work as a visual artist and as a user interface/user experience (UI/UX) designer, her current scholarly work in information science utilizes qualitative and design research methodologies for working closely with conditionally vulnerable community members to co-create digital interventions that align with lived experiences.

A key aspect of this work is the Grounded Visualization Design (GVD) methodology developed by Dr. Snyder to engage diverse stakeholders in the design process through a range of image-making practices. Dr. Snyder applies this critical approach to design research in a range of contexts related to integrating formal science knowledge systems with local and vernacular ways of knowing. This involves close collaborations with practitioners, both in the US and Africa, to apply GVD in contexts such as the management and treatment of serious mental illness, collaborative decision making in the care of pediatric kidney disease patients, and public engagement with biodiversity data. Dr. Snyder’s work has appeared in human computer interaction (HCI) and information science publications including ACM proceedings of CHI and CSCW; ACM TOCHI; JASIST; Computers in Human Behavior; and Human-Computer Interaction. ACM SIGCHI has recognized her work for its contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her research has been funded by UW’s Royalty Research Fund (RRF), Group Health Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

Professor Snyder is currently recruiting Ph.D. students for Autumn 2024 who are interested in pursuing research aligned with her focus on visual methodologies in contexts including: citizen science, personal health information, and local and vernacular knowledge systems.

Education

  • Ph D, Information Science and Technology, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, 2012
  • MFA, Visual Art, Stanford University, 1997
  • BFA, Painting, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, 1993

Awards

  • Best Paper Honorable Mention - DIS 2020, 2020
  • Diversity and Inclusion Recognition - DIS 2020, 2020
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention - CSCW 2018, 2018
  • Diversity and Inclusion Recognition - CSCW 2018, 2018
  • Best Student Paper Award - ASSETS 2017, 2017
  • Doctoral Dissertation Award - iSchool Caucus, 2013
  • Doctoral Award - Syracuse University, 2012
  • Doctoral Dissertation Award - ASIS&T ProQuest, 2012

Publications and Contributions

  • Conference Workshop Paper
    From job titles to jawlines: Using context voids to study generative AI systems (2025)
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13947 Authors: Shahan Ali Memon, Soham De, Sungha Kang, Riyan Mujtaba, Bedoor AlShebli, Katie Davis, Jaime Snyder, Jevin West
  • Conference Paper
    Designing for Common Ground: Visually Representing Conversation Dynamics of Neurodiverse Dyads (2023)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW2), pp. 1-33 Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Designing for Common Ground: Visually Representing Conversation Dynamics of Neurodiverse Dyads (2023)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Developing the West African Digital Mental Health Alliance (WADMA) (2023)
    Nature Medicine, 28(Unknown Issue), pp. 2680–2681 Authors: Lola Kola, Anna Larsen, Seth Asafo, Dzifa Abra Attah, Alexa Beaulieu, Jonathan Kuma Gavi, Kevin Hallgren, Arya Kadakia, Kwadwo Obeng, Sammy Ohene, Jaime Snyder, Angela Ofori-Atta, Dror Ben-Zeev
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    User-Centered Development of Bolster, an mHealth Intervention for Early Psychosis Caregivers: Needs Assessment, Prototyping, and Field Trial (2023)
    JMIR Mental Health, 10(1), pp. 1-17 Authors: Benjamin Buck, Mary Wingerson, Erica Whiting, Jaime Snyder, Maria Monroe-DeVita, Dror Ben-Zeev
  • White Paper
    Ethics in Visualization (2022)
    Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction, ISBN/ISSN: 9780262543217 Author: Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    My Kidney Identity: Contextualizing pediatric patients and their families kidney transplant journeys (2022)
    Pediatric Transplantation Journal, 26(7) Authors: Julia Dunbar, Wanda Pratt, Jamie Snyder, Ari Pollack, Emily Bascom
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A Digital Tooklit (M-Healer) to Improve Care and Reduce Human Rights Abuses Against People with Mental Illness in West Africa: User-Centered Design, Development, and Usability Study (2021)
    JMIR Mental Health, 8(7), pp. 1-15 Authors: Dror Ben-Zeev, Suzanne Meller, Jaime Snyder, Dzifa A. Attah, Liam Albright, Hoa Le, Seth M. Asafo, Pamela Y. Collins, Angela Ofori-Atta
  • Conference Poster
    Co-Designing M-Healer: Supporting Lay Practitioner Mental Health Workers in Ghana (2021)
    Proceedings of the 23rd Human Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII 2021) Authors: Liam Albright, Hoa Le, Suzanne Meller, Angela Ofori-Atta, Dzifa Attah, Seth Asafo, Pamela Collins, Dror Ben-Zeev, Jaime Snyder
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Examining the Ethics of Visualization Design (2021)
    Human-Centered Data Science Author: Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Poster
    Sarjom Project, A Collaborative Vision for a Sustainable Planet That Connects Citizen Science Stakeholders Across Four Dimensions with Open Data (2021)
    Proceedings of the 2021 CitSciVirtual Citizen Science Association Conference (CitSciVirtual) 2021 Authors: Turam Purty, Jaime Snyder, A. Nettar, E. Fortin
  • Conference Paper
    Social-Emotional-Sensory Design Map for Affective Computing Informed by Neurodivergent Experiences (2021)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Becoming (In)visible: Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure in the Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder (2020)
    Proceedings of the 2020 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Authors: J. Petelka, L. Van Kleuen, L. Albright, E. Murnane, S. Voida, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Being (In)Visible: Privacy, Transparency, and Disclosure in the Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder (2020)
    Proceedings of the 38th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI '20) Authors: Justin Petelka, Lucy Van Kleunen, Liam Albright, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Stephen Voida, Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Reflecting on patient-generated photographs of the pediatric renal transplant experience (2020)
    Pediatric Transplant Authors: Jaime Snyder, Ari Pollack
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Stabilizing Digital Infrastructures in Distributed Social Science Collaborations (2020)
    Handbook of Distributed Cognition Authors: Steve Sawyer, Jaime Snyder, Matthew Willis, Sarika Sharma, Carsten Østerlund, Eileen Allen
  • Conference Paper
    Visualizing Biological Rhythms: A Critical Visual Analysis of Mental Health in Flux (2020)
    Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Author: Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Creating Synthetic Patient Data to Support the Design and Evaluation of Novel Health Information Technology (2019)
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 95(Unknown Issue), pp. 103201 Authors: A. Pollack, T. Simon, Jaime Snyder, W. Pratt
  • Blog Post
    Personal Informatics in Interpersonal Contexts: Towards the Design of Technology that Supports the Social Ecologies of Long-Term Mental Health Management (2019)
    Medium Authors: E. L. Murnane, C. Lustig, T. Walker, Beck A Tench, S. Voida, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Spanning the Boundaries of Data Visualization Work: An Exploration of Functional Affordances and Disciplinary Values (2019)
    Proceedings of the iConference in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science Authors: Jaime Snyder, K. Shilton
  • Conference Poster
    Visual Models of Privacy Experiences on Facebook (2019)
    Proceedings of the iConference in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science Authors: Justin Petelka, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Visually Encoding the Lived Experience of Bipolar Disorder (2019)
    Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19) Authors: Jaime Snyder, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Caitlin Lustig, Stephen Voida
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Dimensions of visual misinformation in the emerging media landscape (2018)
    Misinformation and Mass Audiences Authors: Jeff Hemsley, Jaime Snyder
  • Newsletter
    Early Adopters of a Low Vision Head-Mounted Assistive Technology (2018)
    SIGACCESS Newsletter Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Interpretive Impacts of Text Visualization: Mitigating Political Framing Effects (2018)
    ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) Authors: Eric P. S. Baumer, Jaime Snyder, Geri Gay
  • White Paper
    Participatory Design to Support Serious Mental Illness (2018)
    Lessons Learned from Community Engagement Author: Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Short Paper
    Personal Informatics in Interpersonal Contexts: Towards the Design of Technology that Supports the Social Ecologies of Long-Term Mental Health Management (2018)
    Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2018) Authors: Elizabeth Murnane, Tara Walker, Beck A Tench, Stephen Voida, Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Double-Edged Sword: A Mixed Methods Study of the Interplay Between Bipolar Disorder and Technology Use (2017)
    Computers and Human Behavior Authors: Mark Matthews, Elizabeth Murnane, Jaime Snyder, Shion Guha, Pamara Chang, Gavin Doherty, Geri Gay
  • Conference Paper
    Let’s Play (While Faraway)! Using Technology to Mediate Remote Playdates for Children with Autism (2017)
    Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII) Conference Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Ankitha Bharadwaj, Jaime Snyder
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Quantifying the Changeable Self: The role of self-tracking in coming to terms with and managing bipolar disorder (2017)
    Human Computer Interaction, special issue on “The examined life: Personal uses for personal data” Authors: Mark Matthews, Elizabeth Murnane, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Abstract
    Racial Bias in the Representation of Medical Evidence: Constructing a More Inclusive Picture of Health (2017)
    2017 Annual Meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science Authors: Jordan Eschler, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Technology-Mediated Sight: A Case Study of Early Adopters of a Low Vision Assistive Technology (2017)
    19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Anushree Shukla, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Vernacular Visualization Practices in a Citizen Science Project (2017)
    2017 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Conference Author: Jaime Snyder
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Documenting work: From participant observation to participant tracing (2016)
    Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative Pathways and Methods Authors: Carsten Østerlund, Jaime Snyder, Steve Sawyer, Sarika Sharma, Matt Willis
  • Conference Paper
    Observing the Materiality of Values in Information Systems Research (2016)
    Proceeedings of HICSS 2016, pp. 2017-2026 Authors: Jaime Snyder, Katie Shilton, Sara Anderson
  • Conference Poster
    Social Dimensions of Technology-Mediated Sight (Poster abstract) (2016)
    Proceedings of ASSETS Authors: Annuska Zolyomi, Anushree Shukla, Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    Technology-Mediated Sight: A Case Study of Early Adopters of a Low Vision Assistive Technology (2016)
    ASSETS '17 Authors: Jaime Snyder, Annuska Zolyomi, Anushree Shukla
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    Values in the Design of Visualizations (invited paper presentation) (2016)
    CSCW 2016 Workshop on Human-Centered Data Science Author: Jaime Snyder
  • Conference Paper
    MoodLight: Exploring Personal and Social Implications of Ambient Display of Biosensor Data (2015)
    Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), pp. 143-153 Authors: Jaime Snyder, Mark Matthews, Jacqueline Chien, Pamara F Chang, Saeed Abdullah, Emily Sun, Geri Gay
  • Conference Paper
    MoodLight: Real-Time Representation Versus Response Elicitation in Biosensor Data (2015)
    Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 605-608 Authors: Mark Matthews, Jaime Snyder, Lindsay Reynolds, Jacqueline Chien, Adam Shih, Jonathan Lee, Geri Gay
  • Conference Poster
    Using Ethnography of Email to Understand Distributed Scientific Collaborations (2015)
    Proceedings of the iConference Authors: Sarika Sharma, Matt Willis, Jaime Snyder, Carsten Østerlund, Steve Sawyer
  • Conference Non-Archival Papers
    Visualizing Temporality in Biological Rhythms (2015)
    Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Authors: Jaime Snyder, Mark Matthews
  • Conference Poster
    Documents and Distributed Scientific Collaboration (poster) (2014)
    Proceedings of ACM CSCW Authors: Matt Willis, Sarika Sharma, Jaime Snyder, Michelle Brown, Carsten Østerlund, Steve Sawyer
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Making Things Visible: Opportunities and Tensions in Visual Approaches for Design Research and Practice (2014)
    Human Computer Interaction, Special Issue on Design Thinking, 29(5-6), pp. 451-486 Authors: Jaime Snyder, Eric Baumer, Stephen Voida, Phil Adams, Megan Halpern, Tanzeem Choudhury, Geri Gay
  • Conference Poster
    The Document Practice as Insight to Digital Infrastructures of Distributed, Collaborative Social Scientists (poster) (2014)
    Proceedings of the iConference Authors: Sarika Sharma, Jaime Snyder, Carsten Østerlund, Matt Willis, Steve Sawyer, Michelle Brown, Dorotea Szkolar
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Visual Representation of Information as Communicative Practice (2014)
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 65(11), pp. 2233-2247 Author: Jaime Snyder

Presentations

  • Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations (2022)
    University of Colorado Boulder, College of Media, Communication, and Information - Boulder, Colorado
  • Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) 2020/2021 Summer Institute (2021)
    Online
  • Point + Line + Plane: Visually Encoding Lived Experiences (2021)
    Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal: Human Centered Design Week - Portugal
  • Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations (2021)
    University of Michigan - virtual
  • mHealth in West Africa: Developing an evidence-based psychosocial intervention toolkit (2020)
    UW ALACRITY Center - Seattle, WA (virtual)
  • The Pediatric Renal Transplant Experience: Reflecting through Photographs (2020)
    American Transplant Congress - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Using Photo-Elicitation to Scaffold Patient Narratives of the Pediatric Renal Transplant Experience (2020)
    Pediatric Academic Societies & American Pediatric Nephrology - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (virtual)
  • Visualization Design Workshop for visiting LIS students from Sungkyunkwan University (2020)
    Seattle, Washington
  • Data Visualization Basics (2019)
    INFO200 Intellectual Foundations of Informatics. Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, Washington
  • Data Visualization Basics (2019)
    INFO200 Intellectual Foundations of Informatics. Information School - Seattle, Washington
  • Interpretive Impacts of Text Visualization: Mitigating Political Framing Effects (2019)
    SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019) - Glasgow, UK
  • Invited lecture (2019)
    DUB Seminar, University of Washington - Seattle, Washington
  • Obstacles to Empathy: Visually Encoding Personal Data for Vulnerable Populations (2019)
    Data Analytics group, University College Dublin - Dublin, Ireland
  • Obstacles to Empathy: Visually Encoding the Lived Experience of Bipolar Disorder (2019)
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Ghana School of Medicine - Accra, Ghana
  • The Pediatric Renal Transplant Experience: Reflecting through Photographs (2019)
    American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week - Washington, D.C.
  • Visualization Studies: Creating and Using Visual Representations in Collaborative Contexts (2019)
    Microsoft Whiteboard Working Group - Bellevue
  • Data Visualization Basics (2018)
    INFO 200: Intellectual Foundations of Informatics. Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, Washington
  • Quantifying the Changeable Self: The role of self-tracking in coming to terms with and managing bipolar disorder (2018)
    SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018) - Montreal, Canada
  • Social Issues in Personal Informatics: Design, Data, and Infrastructure (2018)
    Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - New York, New York
  • Visualizing Bipolar Disorder: Encoding Personal Data through Co-Design (2018)
    Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center - Seattle, WA
  • Credible Images (HICSS-50 Digital & Social Media Ignite Presentation) (2017)
    HICSS - Waikoloa Village, HI
  • Data Visualization Basics (2017)
    INFO200 Intellectual Foundations of Informatics, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Data Visualization: Principles and Tools (2017)
    LIS530 Organization of Information and Resources, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Evaluating Visual Practices in a Citizen Science Project (2017)
    CSCW 2017 Workshop, The Science of Citizen Science - Portland, OR
  • Infographic Design (2017)
    FISH 478 Topics in Sustainable Fisheries. College of the Environment, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Racial Bias in the Representation of Medical Evidence: Constructing a More Inclusive Picture of Health (2017)
    Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science - Boston, Massachusetts
  • The Reproducibility Concept, Practice & Toolset (2017)
    eScience Data Science Studies Workshop - Seattle, WA
  • User Centered Visualization Design Workshop (2017)
    INFO474 Interactive Information Visualization, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Vernacular Visualization in the Management of Serious Mental Illness (2017)
    Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine - Irvine, CA
  • Visualizing Bipolar Disorder: Visual Materiality in the Representation of Biological Rhythms (2017)
    STSS591 Science, Technology, and Society Studies in Action, Information School, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Data Visualization Basics (2016)
    INFO200 Intellectual Foundations of Informatics, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Data Visualization Basics (2016)
    INFO200 Intellectual Foundations of Informatics, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Meet, Greet, Teach: Gaming for Good (2016)
    College of the Environment, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Native Girls Code Design Thinking Workshop (2016)
    Na'ah Illahee Fund - Seattle, WA
  • Visualizing Temporality in Biological Rhythms (2015)
    Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science - Denver, Colorado
  • From Effects to Entanglements: A Fishbowl Discussion on Sociomateriality (2014)
    Panel at the iConference - Berlin, Germany
  • Traces of Work: Visibility & Documenting Practices within Distributed Social Science Collaboration (2014)
    Sharing, re-use and circulation of resources in cooperative scientific work, Workshop at CSCW 2014 - Baltimore, MD
  • Transections: an interdisciplinary exploration of design between science and the humanities (2014)
    Invited presenter and panelist. Symposium organized by Professors Anda French and Lori Brown, Syracuse University School of Architecture - Syracuse, NY
  • Light, Color, Affect, and Stress (2013)
    Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science - San Diego, California